Skillful Means provides proven methods you can use at work to transform stress into well-being. These methods will help you prevent burnout and to learn to revitalize as you work. The continuum of burnout points to the status of your energy related to what you are doing. • Do you find yourself distracted, unable to accomplish your goals? • Do you often wake up feeling exhausted? • Do you find yourself without a sense of lightness and humor? • Would you like to experience endurance and energy? • Do interactions with others sometimes make you irritable or angry? • Do you feel like you never have enough time? Learning Objectives: • Discover where you are on the stress or burnout continuum. • Learn the causes of stress and burnout, and the antidotes to them. • Actively learn to revitalize yourself as you work. • “Where there is stress, there is hope.” Topics: 1. Tension is normal, stress is not. 2. Balance giving - receiving, thinking - feeling, being - doing. 3. Alienation from time. 4. Guard against the negative, promote the positive. 5. Revitalize while working. 6. Integrate personal and professional goals. Learning Activities include: theory, dialogue, individual exercises, reading, writing, reflections, guided imagery, relaxation exercises and Kum Nye yoga. |